Genesis 25:19: generations of Isaac - Study Note/bible/Gen/25/19... generations of Isaac. Genesis 25:19a terminates the long record kept by Isaac, which apparently began at Genesis 11:27 where Terah’s record left off. Much of the narrative of Genesis 12–22, of course, would have been told Isaac by...

Genesis 11:27: Haran - Study Note/bible/Gen/11/27... and Haran are associated with cities in Mesopotamia (Genesis 24:10; 28:10). Haran died when relatively young, evidently while visiting his father back in Ur (Genesis 11:26 28,32). His son, Lot, soon became attached to his Uncle...

Genesis 19:36: child by their father - Study Note/bible/Gen/19/36... uncle, Nahor, had married his niece, their own Aunt Milcah (Genesis 11:27-29), and that Abraham’s wife Sarah was his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). Nevertheless, their particular act was unnatural, to say the least, and they knew their father...

Genesis 11:27: generations of Terah - Study Note/bible/Gen/11/27... solely of the genealogical records from Shem to himself (Genesis 11:10-27). If there are no gaps in the genealogies, Shem lived until after Terah’s death, so Terah could easily have gotten the earlier tablets from Shem. Likewise, he...

Genesis 2:4: generations “ - Study Note/bible/Gen/2/4... (Hebrew toledoth) is the word from which the book of Genesis gets its name. In the Septuagint it is rendered by the Greek genesis, which in Matthew 1:1 is translated “generation.” This is the first occurrence of the formula...

Genesis 11:27/bible/Gen/11/27... these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat...

Genesis 11:27: Terah begat Abram - Study Note/bible/Gen/11/27... Terah begat Abram. Isaac is apparently the author of the next toledoth, and he seems to have keyed his record back into Terah’s simply by repeating the conclusion of the...